scholarly journals Traces of Greek Philosophy and Roman Law in the New Testament. Edward Hicks

1897 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-85
Author(s):  
George S. Goodspeed
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
The New Testament

Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament. The Sarum Lectures 1960-1961

1963 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
A. E. Raubitschek ◽  
A. N. Sherwin-White
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
The New Testament

scholarly journals Constructing the rights and duties of slave-owners as socio-historic context of the New Testament

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Goede
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Legal Contexts

This article aims to construct the rights and duties of slave- owners in antiquity as part of the socio-historical context of the New Testament. In order to achieve this aim, the primary sources referring to Greek, Roman and Jewish law of slavery will first be described. Three aspects of the law of slavery, namely legal definitions of freedom and slavery, the legal status of slaves, and the rights of slave-owners are investigated in Greek, Roman and Jewish law. Relevant texts from these sources are then identified, analysed and interpreted. The re- sults of this process of analysis and interpretation are used to construct the legal context within which the exhortations directed at slave-owners in the New Testament should be read. We submit that Jewish law provided a sound alternative legal and religious context to the writers of the New Testament addressing Christian slave-owners. This alternative context functioned as a counterweight to the strict legal contexts pro- vided by Greek and Roman law.

The Trinity between Athens and Jerusalem

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Schwöbel
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Cappadocian Fathers ◽  
The Trinity

AbstractThis article uncovers the roots of the doctrine of the Trinity in the 'prototrinitarian grammar of discourse on God' of the New Testament and in its Old Testament presuppositions. Contrary to the well-worn thesis of Harnack, it is argued that it was Jerusalem rather than Athens—i.e., the biblical witness rather than Greek metaphysics—that gave rise to the dogma of the Trinity. Greek metaphysics only came in when the early Christians had to express the universality of the truth they claimed for God's self-disclosure through Christ in the Spirit by engaging with Greek philosophy. This was a risky experiment, since it implied a conceptual redefinition that went against the doctrine's original import. It is shown, however, that the crucial link to the biblical witness was re-established by the Cappadocian fathers and subsequently adopted by the Council of Constantinople (381).

scholarly journals Intertextual Strategy of the Narrator of the Second Epistle of Peter in the Catalogue of Virtues (1:5-7)

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 865-880
Author(s):  
Mariusz Rosik ◽  
Kalina Wojciechowska
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
1 Peter ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
2 Peter

The Second Epistle of Peter is one of the least studied texts of the New Testament. It is usually compared with 1 Peter and/or Jude and indeed shows some similarities and some differences with these texts. But little attention is paid to the originality of 2 Peter both in its interpretation of texts from the Jewish tradition and in the application of intertextual strategies to elements of Greek philosophy. 2 Pet 1:5-7 is undoubtedly one of the most Hellenized passages of the epistle. Not only did the narrator use a hierarchical catalog of virtues popular in Greek literature, but also terms that are commonly associated with ethics, especially the stoic ethics (faith – πίστις; virtue – ἀρετή; knowledge – γνῶσις). This article aims to present the manner in which the narrator in 2 Pet 1:5-7 enters into dialogue with Greek ethical texts and how he transforms, innovates, and reinterprets these texts. In other words, what intertextual strategy he uses.

The Torah of the Gospel: A Rabbinic Polemic against The Syro-Roman Lawbook

2019 ◽  
Vol 112 (04) ◽  
pp. 517-540
Author(s):  
Yakir Paz
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Mosaic Law ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn a famous story in b. Šabb. 116a–b, Imma Shalom and her brother, Rabban Gamaliel, present to a philosopher a dispute concerning the inheritance of the daughter. The judge, having being bribed by Imma Shalom, rules in her favor, against the ruling of the Torah of Moses, arguing that the latter has been abrogated and replaced by the “Torah of the Gospel,” which states that “the son and the daughter inherit equally.” After being bribed by Rabban Gamaliel, the philosopher recants, citing Matt 5:17, where Jesus reaffirms the validity of the Mosaic Law.This article argues that the “Torah of the Gospel” actually refers to The Syro-Roman Lawbook, and that the story is constructed as a response to a radical and new legal supersessionist argument brought forth in this book which is directly linked to the Roman law of equal inheritance. This is the first clear evidence we have that, alongside the New Testament, the Babylonian rabbis also read and engaged directly with Christian books of their time written in Syriac. This has major ramifications on the way we perceive the textual culture of the Babylonian rabbis and their intellectual interactions with East Syrians.

Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament

1964 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Rudolph C. Gelsey ◽  
A. N. Sherwin-White
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
The New Testament

scholarly journals Utilitas rei publicae contra misericordiam. Justinian’s Criminal Legislation in Borys Łapicki’s View

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Bożena Czech-Jezierska
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Law And Ethics ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Criminal Legislation

Borys Łapicki (1889–1974) was a Roman law scholar whose works contained many references to the correlations between Roman law and ethics. The article provides an overview of B. Łapicki’s writings and discusses his views on the concept of misericordia and on the influence of that concept on Emperor Justinian’s criminal legislation. A definite and clear-cut thesis emerges from this analysis. Borys Łapicki declares that although Justinian was an emperor who considered himself and was considered to be the great defender of the Christian faith, his legislation was influenced by the principle of utilitas rei publicae, rather than by Christian misericordia and by the humanitarian principles of the New Testament ethics. This is particularly evident in his criminal legislation. This leads B. Łapicki to conclude that it was “not Christianity that influenced Justinian, but on the contrary, he exercised his influence on Christianity so that it could serve his political purposes.”

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